16 “No,” she cried,[a] “sending me away is much worse than the great wrong you’ve already done to me!”

But he refused to listen to her. 17 Instead, he called to the servant who waited on him, “Get this away from me, throw her out, and bolt the door behind her!” 18 Amnon’s servant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a long-sleeved[b] robe, because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore.

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Footnotes

  1. 13:16 Lit she said to him
  2. 13:18 Or ornate; Gn 37:3

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